adolescencia
[að̞oleˈsẽnsja]
The verdict
“adolescencia” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,212
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Etapa de la vida situada entre la niñez y la edad adulta, caracterizada por la inmadurez, rebeldía y afirmación de la individualidad.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adolescencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [að̞oleˈsẽnsja] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adolescencia” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around adolescencia (IPA [að̞oleˈsẽnsja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,212 among 120,137 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Etapa de la vida situada entre la niñez y la edad adulta, caracterizada por la inmadurez, rebeldía y afirmación de la individualidad.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for adolescencia, with forms such as "addolescencia", "adloescencia", and "adoelscencia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is adolescencia, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Etapa de la vida situada entre la niñez y la edad adulta, caracterizada por la inmadurez, rebeldía y afirmación de la individualidad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addolescencia
- adloescencia
- adoelscencia
- adolecsencia
- adolesccencia
- adolescecnia
- adolescencai
- adolescenccia
- adolescenica
- adolescenncia
- adolescnecia
- adolesecncia
- adolesscencia
- adolessensia
- adollescencia
- adolsecencia
- aodlescencia
- daolescencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adolescencia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adolescencia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞oleˈsẽnsja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.